Peter Okoye, PBA Journalism Mentee
Prince Bola Ajibola, a former Judge of the International Court of Justice, Hague, Netherlands passed away on Saturday at midnight after a long-time illness associated with old age.
He passed on at the age of 89.
Join our WhatsApp ChannelThe news about his death was made known to the public in a statement released on Sunday by his eldest child, Segun Ajibola, who he prayed that “Almighty Allah bless him with Aljanah Firdaus”.
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Here are some remarkable things to know about the late international lawyer:
Prince Ajibola was the president of the Nigerian Bar Association between 1984 and 1985.
He was Nigeria’s Attorney General and the Minister of Justice from 1985 to 1991.
Prince Ajibola served as a Judge of the International Court of Justice from 1991 to 1994.
The late judge was the High Commissioner of Nigeria to the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2002.
Prince Ajibola was also one of the five commissioners on the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission, set up by the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
He was the chairman of the panel set up by the Plateau State Government to investigate the 2008 Jos riots.
He was also the founder of an Islamic and co-educational institution, Crescent University, Abeokuta, Ogun State in 2005.
Ajibola was born into a royal family of Oba Abdul-Salam Ajibola Ghadela 11 of Owu, Ogun State on 22nd March 1934.
He attended Owu Baptist Day School and Baptist Boys’ High School in Abeokuta between 1942 and 1955, and obtained his bachelor’s degree in Law at the Holborn College of Law, University of London, between 1959 and 1962.
Ajibola was called to the English Bar at the Lincoln’s Inn in 1962 but later came back to Nigeria to practise.
Prince Ajibola’s death came seven years after the death of his wife, Olufumilayo in London.
